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Hasegawa airplane kit release history?

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  • Member since
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  • From: Clovis, Ca.
Hasegawa airplane kit release history?
Posted by decamara on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:37 AM

Does anyone know how to definitively tell what year each kits were released from the past?

I cannot find dates on the actual kits themselves.

Is there a list in the inter-web?

Is there a kit # pattern?

Thanks

Doc

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    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:55 AM

With some brands, the kit number does help, Dragon for example. But not sure about the Hasegawa system. The best source I know is this one.

http://www.scalemates.com/

Go to kit database and then use the Search options to narrow it down.

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Posted by the Baron on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 11:48 AM

Maybe Thomas Graham will write his next book on Hasegawa.

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  • From: Lancaster, South Carolina
Posted by Devil Dawg on Thursday, March 13, 2014 11:04 AM

Do the instruction sheets show a copyright date?

Devil Dawg

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  • From: Clovis, Ca.
Posted by decamara on Thursday, March 13, 2014 12:03 PM

Not that I can find.

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  • From: Clovis, Ca.
Posted by decamara on Thursday, March 13, 2014 12:05 PM

I sent an e-mail to Minicraft/Hasegawa, and they stated that they don't know release dates from the past.

Hmmmmm

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  • From: near Nashville, TN
Posted by TarnShip on Thursday, March 13, 2014 12:06 PM

Dawg, some do, and a lot of them don't.

be aware that the Scalemates page is very much still a work in progress, caused in large part by some of the older kits not being in anyone's stashes anymore. So you will get gaps in the early days.

Also, to get to the timeline for a kit, you search for the Aircraft type you want, and the timeline shows up when you click on one listing for that manufacturer.

So, to find the boxing of the 5000th Phantom by Hasegawa, you search for 1/72 Phantom (or Hasegawa Phantom) and click the link for the model with that picture, then scroll down,  or you can search for Hasegawa Phantom 1085 (the Minicraft/Hasegawa release) and scroll down that page.

(a lot of people must think that Scalemates is complete, I have been told that there was no kit of the sensorless F-4D, and I have kit # A-655 right in front of me,,,,,,,but, I haven't uploaded to Scalemates, yet)

Also, for some types, you have to look very carefully to see where the "kit generations" start and stop,,,,,,connected lines mean same tooling,,,,,a break in those thin lines tell us that the tooling changed.

oh, and the "Hasegawa-Monogram" Phantoms are not on there, either, I don't think.

Rex

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